Keenen Ivory Wayans is Not Dead…

…But no one told the Twitterverse. If you check out the hashtag #keenenivorywayans, you immediately discover an avalanche of Tweets expressing either grief at his death or outrage at the hoaxed report of his death.

Apparently it all started with a fake CNN Breaking News report in which the 52-year-old Wayans was reported to have died in his “Los Angels” home. An explosion of unverified re-Tweets resulted, showing that the average Tweeter out there does not fact-check their Tweets. And why should you fact-check your Tweets? It’s not like some maniac would manufacture a hoax about Keenan’s death…would they? You could end up in Gitmo!